Our focus is FCT, Osun, Ekiti, 2027 elections – Accord to Imumolen

The Accord Party has said it is focused on winning the Osun State and Ekiti State governorship elections, the Federal Capital Territory, FCT Area Council polls, as well as the 2027 general elections.

The party said it remains the most peaceful, stable, united, progressive and fastest-growing political party in Nigeria, without any faction.

According to the party, there are individuals it described as distractors—political jobbers with a singular aim of pursuing stomach infrastructure and cheap publicity.

Accord said it is focused on the forthcoming election in Osun State and would not dissipate energy responding to frivolities from political nomads roaming the democratic space.

The party’s National Chairman, Barr. Maxwell Mgbudem, stated this at a world press conference held in Abuja on Tuesday, which, according to him, was convened to address crucial party issues and to put the record straight on what he described as misleading propaganda by the party’s 2023 presidential candidate, Prof. Christopher Imumolen, who was long expelled from the party for alleged gross misconduct and anti-party activities—an expulsion he did not challenge.

The press briefing followed an interview granted by Imumolen on some national television stations in which he claimed to be the authentic National Chairman of the party.

“Accord is aware of the antics of these political jobbers whose stock-in-trade is to impersonate leaders of political parties, file spurious and frivolous suits in court in what the Supreme Court had long dismissed as forum shopping, in an attempt to cause confusion and disaffection in the party, hoping to be ‘settled’, which are alien to our great party as a credible platform and a key player in the democratic process,” he said.

According to him, “Since His Excellency, Senator Ademola Adeleke, joined Accord along with his political associates and supporters, our party has witnessed tremendous national acceptance as thousands of Nigerians join and identify with Accord across the country, a testament to Governor Adeleke’s political influence and national appeal.

“He has attracted numerous Nigerians to Accord, which has placed the party at the forefront of our democratic process. It is this amazing growth and popularity of the party nationwide that our expelled former presidential candidate, Christopher Imumolen, wants to steal a march by arrogating to himself a party position he never had, was never appointed to nor elected into—a mirage that exists only in his fertile imagination.

“It is laughable and a joke taken too far, making a mockery of our nation’s hard-earned democracy. It is a hallucination of the worst order and an insult to the sensibilities of the good people of Osun State, after witnessing the emergence of His Excellency, Senator Ademola Adeleke, as the duly nominated candidate of Accord in the governorship primary monitored by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, and extensively covered by the media.

“Going forward, we shall not join issues with any expelled member desperately seeking relevance.

“Imumolen is no longer a member of Accord, effective 20 November 2024. He did not appeal his expulsion to date.

“As a responsible party, Accord will not join issues with expelled members and political jobbers. It is evident that Prof. Imumolen is a busybody.

“We are focused on winning Osun, Ekiti, the FCT Area Council polls, and preparing for the 2027 general election.”

Our focus is FCT, Osun, Ekiti, 2027 elections – Accord to Imumolen